Word: loos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from east to west, scorching relentlessly. The earth cracks up and deep fissures open their gaping mouths; but there is no water-only the shimmering haze at noon making mirage lakes of quicksilver . . . The sun makes an ally of the breeze. It heats the air till it becomes the loo and then sends it on its errand. Even in the intense heat, the loo's warm caresses are sensuous and pleasant. It brings up the prickly heat. It produces a numbness which makes the head nod and the eyes heavy with sleep. It brings on a stroke which takes...
...mileage this season, and he will do well almost any year with the really unknown names (Karl Ditters von Dit-tersdorf) that make his opponents uneasy. But what separates the great player from the merely good one is his ability to pronounce names correctly that most people muff ("Loo-EE-jee Da-la-pee-CO-la"). To take the guesswork out of pronunciation, Grayhill Productions has now issued an LP recording that no serious player can afford to be without...
...James Riddle Hoffa sees it, the most serious threat to his job security lies in the three-man board of monitors fastened on him by a U.S. district court in 1958 to oversee his promised cleanup of the racket-riddled International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Consequently, Hoffa has kept his loo-member legal staff busy harassing the monitors in court, and helping him find other ways around them outside the court...
...loo-yd. freestyle, the feature event of any swimming meet, the man to beat was Jeff Farrell, 23, a weight-lifting Navy lieutenant who had won the 220 in the record time of 2:00.2. In a trial heat, Farrell tied the listed record of 48.9. But 16-year-old Steve Clark of Los Angeles qualified in 48.8. Suitably impressed, Farrell hit his tumble turns in the finals like an acrobat, won in the record time of 48.2 (Clark was fifth, with 49.4) So fast were the American sprinters that 19 bettered the 51-sec. world record of Johnny (Tarzan...
...Danes, who "used to comb their hair every day, bathed every Saturday and used many other such frivolous means of setting off the beauty of their persons." As late as the 18th century, when residents of Edinburgh threw slops from fifth-floor bedchambers with the cry "Gardy-loo!" (from the French gardez I'eau, or watch out for the water), Europe's sanitary arrangements consisted of ordure without decorum. The first British patent for a water closet was not taken out until 1775, although da Vinci had designed one nearly three centuries earlier...